Don't get me wrong, I like to do a lot of things myself. Mainly because I hate, absolutely HATE, having to depend on people. Not because I don't want to, but because I'd rather not be disappointed by people. I also like being able to know how to do certain things in case no one is available to help me.
This topic came up after my best friends car battery wouldn't start. She basically just needed her car to be jumped so that she could move it into her driveway for alternate side parking. Her boyfriend was going to take care of it, and all they needed were my jumper cables. I, of course, didn't mind. He's a guy. He knows how to jump a car, right? Wrong. So wrong. So very very very wrong. I was so confused, how does a guy not know how to do something as simple as jumping a car. Almost an hour later, I got a text message, "I WOULD have a foreign battery!!" I didn't know what to say, she drives a Jeep. Jeeps have American batteries. I calmly asked her for a photo, and she sent one back...of her fuse box. They had spent an hour trying to hook up the jumper cables to a fuse box. I had never experienced such a thing.
I drove over and was completely baffled. He's a guy. A straight male. How does he not know how to do something as simple as jump a car? Granted, he was embarrassed that a girl had come to his rescue, but why wouldn't you just tell someone that you don't really know what to do? It saves a lot of time trying to figuring something out. And it's normal, that's how you learn how to do things. There's no shame in that, and when you don't ask for help, you look more foolish.
I know this might just be a way that I was raised, and it might be because I'm a girl and I can get away with not knowing things about my car. But you can't have two people in a relationship that don't know how to fix things. That's just a disaster waiting to happen in my eyes.
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